[LRflex] Re: RAW vs JPEG fine??
- From: "William B. Abbott III" <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:36:58 -0700
Alex,
I have an M8 and a DMR to go with my G5 Mac and when I got the DMR in
2005, I checked out Apple's Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom and would
have loved to go with Aperture but Apple and Adobe are having, or were
having, a spat and Aperture could not read the Leica native DNG files,
so I chose Lightroom and have come to like it very much. I cannot
compare the two because I've never used Aperture.
The range of adjustments in Lightroom seems to be an advance over my
Photoshop C3 but so you'd be sort of at home, except that Adobe has
created many new ways to alter an image, which I am just learning.
Lightroom takes some doing to learn (I'm still a basic learner after a
year) and is geared to a straight through routine of import, sort and
edit, develop, and output to print/slideshow/internet so I do a lot of
back and forth with one image sometimes but with enough RAM it works
fine. Someday I'll learn to do batches.
I always shoot in RAW and all my files are DNG, in which I do all my
manipulation, mostly Adobe Auto WB abd Auto Tone with some other
favorites and touching up of exposures, blacks, etc. When I want a
jpeg to send I just save a copy as a jpeg, which uses Adobe's DNG-
>jpeg conversion but it seems fine to me.
I suggest you download a free full version of Lightroom 2 and import a
chip full of M8 DNG files to it and see what you think.
That's my suggestion.
With all best wishes,
Bill
On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:06 AM, Alex Hurst wrote:
Hi all.
I know this is a hoary old chestnut, but a reiteration of your views
for the benefit of a tyro would be much appreciated
I've just acquired a very nice ex-demo black M8 body which comes
with Capture One, not to mention the full Leica Passport. It's now
mated to my Nocti, which is probably my M8 lens of choice most of
the time.
As I'm a Mac man, I tend to use iPhoto as my main photo library, and
edit in Photoshop.
To date with my Nikon D200 I've been very happy with the quality of
the fine JPEGs (printing to a maximum size of A4), and haven't even
dabbled in RAW.
But, as Capture One appears to be highly-rated, is it really worth
learning its ins and outs to extract ultimate quality from the M8 in
RAW, or should I stick to fine JPEGs and my usual routine as with
the Nikon?
I emphasise that I'm not going to be producing huge exhibition
prints, and the M8, like the Nikon, seems to produce 10Mb files in
fine JPEG mode.
With my current set-up, editing is very quick. I have the impression
that RAW is a lot more time-consuming, but I may be mistaken.
What do you guys do and why?
Best of light.
Alex
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